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Toddlers' Clinics.

Invalid Children's Aid Association.
The Battersea Branch of this Association has since 1929 been
granted, rent free, the use of a room at Southlands as an office. The
Council also made a grant of £25.
Child Life Protection.
The statutory provisions relating to infant life protection, so far
as London is concerned, are now embodied in the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936.
Foster mothers and the children in their care were visited by the
health visiting staff, who were appointed by the Council as Infant Life
Protection visitors. The number of visits paid by them to foster
mothers and children was 141.
At the 4th July, 1948, there were 18 Battersea foster-mothers
known to the Council, all of whom had nurse children in their care to
the number of 25.
St. Thomas's Babies' Hostel.
Since 1926, cases have been sent from the Borough Maternity and
Child Welfare clinics to this Hostel for the encouragement of breast
feeding.
The result of this work was as follows :—
Test Feeds. Number of cases, 57. Number of attendances,
82.
In-Patient Treatment. Battersea cases received—
5 mothers and 8 babies.
Period of stay.
5 mothers, 201 days, and 8 babies, 321 days; averagemothers,
40 days; babies, 40 days.
A contribution of £100 was made by the Council in respect ot
the work carried out by the Hostel for Battersea mothers.
National Dried Milk and Vitamins.
National dried milk, fruit juice and cod liver oil, supplied by the
Ministry of Food, have been distributed to children and expectant
mothers through the Public Health Department and the Welfare and
Ante-Natal Clinics. The totals issued through these sources were:
National Dried Milk, 9,125 packets; Fruit Juice, 11,527 bottles; Cod
Liver Oil, 3,276 bottles, and 781 packets of capsules.